Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private life. Commissioner Moss's business was show business. He and his brother, Benjamin S. Moss, were pioneer chain cinemansion operators, he coproduced a hit called Subway Express and for a long time was a prominent Theatre Guildsman. It was only natural that Commissioner Moss should concentrate his reform zeal on Broadway. He requisitioned dress rehearsal seats to all productions so that if a show was dirty it could be cleaned up without the furor of revision after the opening. He made all casting offices take out licenses, rid the city of unscrupulous booking agents. In 1934 he requested...
...ultimatum demanding jurisdiction over the contract loading of all railroad freight for lighterage about New York Harbor. The Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks which had controlled part of this work promptly countered with a set of demands upon the railroads, threatened a strike of 25,000 freight and express handlers, ticket sellers and railway station employes that would tie up railroad service in the whole New York City area. A serious strike depriving 7,000,000 people of many things far more essential than Coronation costumes was averted at the last minute when President Roosevelt appointed a special mediation board...
...separate sheet will be provided for each course, and, as the value of the Guide naturally depends upon its accuracy and ability to reflect a genuine cross section of opinion, it is necessary that all Freshmen take this opportunity to express their opinions. Particularly it is important to cover all courses open to the first year class, and for that reason it is hoped that 1940 men will deal with at least three of their courses, and include in those any smaller courses in which they are enrolled...
...student committee might delve into the question of whether the framers' decision to enumerate the powers of Congress necessarily implies a desire to limit Federal power to the express delegation of the Constitution. It will be remembered that Madison, while favoring the enumeration of powers, protested against confining a government to the exercise of express powers, saying that "there must necessarily be admitted powers by implication." But while the framers wrote a constitution with implied as well as enumerated powers, judicial interpretation has tended to stretch, however slowly, the powers of the central government. Nevertheless, there are many who favor...
...story of your own country and show them something new. I say, "So I've heard" it's like this. But by now I wager it's a town on a mountain top with an Otis escalator going up, a Grand Hotel on the highest peak, the American Express on Main Street and Haig and Haig on every other bill board. And you'll meet an Oxford student at every bar, a Harvard man in every cinema and an American no matter where you are. And sometimes you're awfully glad...